Duration | 00:26:21.151 |
Abstract | Hackner discusses his life in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he became an architect's apprentice and after establishing his own business in 1953, worked on commercial and residential buildings. He details his involvement in the development of the first public housing projects in La Crosse in 1957 and also discusses La Crosse architectural developments in the 1950s. |
Contributor | La Crosse Urban History Project |
Interviewee | Hackner, Robert |
Interviewer | Clayton, William |
Owner | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse |
Type of resource | sound recording |
Genre | history |
Genre authority | marcgt |
Publisher name | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Oral History Program |
Place of publication | La Crosse, Wisconsin |
Date published | 1987 |
Date captured | 2016-11-21 |
Language | eng |
Subject topic | Hackner, Robert B. -- Interviews Authority: LCSH |
Subject topic | Architects and housing developers -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse Authority: LCSH |
Subject topic | Public housing -- Wisconsin -- La Crosse Authority: LCSH |
Subject topic | La Crosse (Wis.) -- Social life and customs Authority: LCSH |
Subject topic | United States -- History -- 1945-1953 Authority: LCSH |
Subject topic | United States -- History -- 1953-1961 Authority: LCSH |
Source note | Interviews form basis for student reports cataloged separately.; Forms part of: La Crosse Urban History Project, 1945-1960, conducted by students of History 325, American Urban History, at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 1987. La Crosse owns supplemental material: 1 sound cassette. |
Content | 00.01.14—Living near La Crosse, 1930s and 1940s | 00.01.57—College, Notre Dame | 00.02.50—Architecture apprenticeship, Muar, Schubert, and Sorensen | 00.04.34—Building residence halls, University of Wisconsin system | 00.05.20—Muar, Schubert, and Sorensen buildings | 00.05.47—Open own firm, 1953 | 00.06.50—Building in La Crosse, 1960s | 00.07.45—Building La Crosse County Courthouse, 1965 | 00.08.50—Public housing project, 1957 | 00.11.17—Draining La Crosse swamp | 00.12.09—Public housing attitudes, 1957 | 00.13.55—Schuh public housing innovation | 00.18.26—Federal Public Housing Administration rules and restrictions | 00.20.43—Other major projects done by Hackner Schroeder Architects | 00.21.32—Residential buildings, 1950s | 00.24.13—Twin Cities architects in La Crosse, 1950s. |
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Collection | UWL Oral History Program Collection |
ID | aa172543-df64-469f-9585-15a8bb4e56e4/wlacu000/00000018/00000006 |
Barcode | 3134406206985 |
Barcode | 3134404252068 |
Doi | 18-0006 |